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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from Foreigner in What concept/concepts is behind the term "inspired"?   
    Probably one of the more pressing questions of the day, is whether or not ManBearPig is real !
     
     
     
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. reacted to Srecko Sostar in What concept/concepts is behind the term "inspired"?   
    justice, mercy, love, humility, etc.
    This beautiful things you mentioned ... for sure are something that is effect, output (or in Bible terminology Fruit of Spirit) of Inspiration made by Spirit on Human. And also it  is something that can Inspire people around you or around somebody who shine with this beautiful wealth/richness.
    And as i mentioned before, we can look, I am looking, on this in two way.
    One is: Divine Inspiration in Direct way and in Real time moment made by Power Above.
    Another is: Divine Inspiration that already Existing in us, in our blood in our cells, from long time ago and waiting for our permission, our will,  the right moment of our readiness in our deep soul, to be expressed and to be seen on day light. 
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from Foreigner in What concept/concepts is behind the term "inspired"?   
    ... and the WHOLE 1914 Generations thingy can be resolved by writing down an HONEST answer to the ONE question:
    " When Jesus was talking eyeball to eyeball with the Apostles and others, when he said "This generation will not pass away until all these things occur ...", how did THEY understand what Jesus was talking about?"
    ... ALL ELSE is delusional theological fantasy.
     
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from BillyTheKid46 in What concept/concepts is behind the term "inspired"?   
    ... and the WHOLE 1914 Generations thingy can be resolved by writing down an HONEST answer to the ONE question:
    " When Jesus was talking eyeball to eyeball with the Apostles and others, when he said "This generation will not pass away until all these things occur ...", how did THEY understand what Jesus was talking about?"
    ... ALL ELSE is delusional theological fantasy.
     
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from Foreigner in What concept/concepts is behind the term "inspired"?   
    John old Boy, you have just pointed out the obvious, that everybody, including myself missed!
    BillyTheKid46 ... using HIS OWN LOGIC ( ...and that is a stretch ...) not only shot himself in the foot ... again ... but with his OWN LOGIC, condemned the Governing Body as being reprehensible and clueless.
    I do not agree with the concept that he espouses ... as I believe that justice must be tempered with mercy for blind pawns (John 9:41), but his hatred for anyone that does not agree with him has caused him to bend over and start cannibalizing himself, starting with his wounded feet.
    One thing you did NOT do is irrefutably document BTK46's arguement FOR the "prosecution".  You really need to learn how to do screen clips.  May I recommend "FastStone Capture", the same one I recommended to JW Insider.
    Being the kind and generous Barbarian that I am,  here is the irrefutable proof documentation. in .JPG form, so you can download it as two "units" for future reference.
     


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    James Thomas Rook Jr. reacted to JOHN BUTLER in What concept/concepts is behind the term "inspired"?   
    I like that BTK recognises this :  Quote BTK  Not understanding scripture is no excuse before God.
    Thank you Billy you have just condemned the GB and the Watchtower Soc' and JW ORG. 
    With your own words you say it. Remember how misused the scriptures relating to the 'Superior Authorities', and 'This Generation' ?
    Remember how the Bible Students / JW org said Armageddon was coming in 1914 and even printed magazines to show it 
     
    What Watchtower said 
    prior to 1914 What Watchtower claims it said 
    prior to 1914 "The year A.D. 1878 … clearly marks the time for the actual assuming of power as King of kings, by our present, spiritual, invisible Lord - …" The Time is At Hand (1911 ed) p.239 "The Watchtower has consistently presented evidence to honesthearted students of Bible prophecy that Jesus’ presence in heavenly Kingdom power began in 1914." Watchtower1993 Jan 15 p.5 "But bear in mind that the end of 1914 is not the date for the beginning, but for the end of the time of trouble. Zion's Watch Tower 1894 Jul 15 p.226 "Jehovah's witnesses pointed to the year 1914, decades in advance, as marking the start of "the conclusion of the system of things." Awake! 1973 Jan 22 p.8  
    For many decades, it was plainly stated that Armageddon would come whilst people born prior to 1914 were still alive.

    You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth (1982) p.154
    At the 2010 annual meeting, John Barr presented another new understanding of the generation. 97 year old Barr was an apt choice to deliver this talk, being the last of the Governing Body born before 1914. He explained the generation is now to include 2 groups whose lives "overlap" since 1914:
    If it is truth that a generation includes an "overlap" with those born in 1914, why did Jehovah allow the Watchtower to teach for decades that a generation would end within the lifetime of a person born prior to 1914? Why allow it to introduce several new and contradictory teachings since 1995? Surely this proves Watchtower teachings are not directed by God.
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from Foreigner in What concept/concepts is behind the term "inspired"?   
    Ya got me on that pacifist issue, BTK46.  
    When a bully is flailing about, I defend the ones being falsely accused BY YOU.
    ...   silly me.
    ...   and Billy ... the works are ALREADY gummed up .... my "crime" is I know about it.
     
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from Anna in What concept/concepts is behind the term "inspired"?   
    Billy ... If JW Insider's Avatar and moniker is a stumbling block to you, and you think it taints the name of God, you have some serious screws loose.
    It's amazing you can walk down the street without having parts fall off.
     
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from BillyTheKid46 in What concept/concepts is behind the term "inspired"?   
    FOXNEWSFLASH !  -  June 18, 2019  -  Sydney Australia
    In a hidden saltwater lake suspected to have thousands of miles of flooded  underground lava tubes to the Pacific Ocean,   in Central Australia, near Olympic Dam,  known for its high yield Uranium deposits, Forensic Anthropologists discover living precursors to modern day Kangaroos.
    Stunning high resolution photos indicate these may have been the Kangaroos that left Australia approximately 4,000 years ago, and swam the Pacific Ocean to mainland Asia, and then hopped many thousands of miles across plains, forests , mountains, swamps, raging rivers and amber waves of grain to the Middle East to become passengers on Noah's Ark.
    When asked, Dr. Walter Brotherman, of the Sydney Theological Institute stated "This proves the Bible record is correct, as currently understood by everyone in Christendom,  and that supposed "solid evidence" that Australia has never been deluged is completely false."

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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from Foreigner in What concept/concepts is behind the term "inspired"?   
    Billy ... If JW Insider's Avatar and moniker is a stumbling block to you, and you think it taints the name of God, you have some serious screws loose.
    It's amazing you can walk down the street without having parts fall off.
     
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from JOHN BUTLER in What concept/concepts is behind the term "inspired"?   
    I agree (somewhat).  
    I have no interest whatsoever in attacking people I will never meet, and soon, like all of us ... toooooo soon we will all be dead, and the words we type will evaporate forever.
    However, when I get hit on the shoulder and a grenade falls into my lap (figuratively speaking), I pick it up and toss it back where it came from.  Most of the time the "sender" forgot to pull the pin, but I consider the evil  intent, so I pull the pin, and send it back.  The amount of lies told about me, and things I have been accused of need to be addressed, AND ANY LIAR AND SLANDERER THOROUGHLY EXPOSED ... which I have done.
    Common, ordinary self defense.
    It's an exceptional person who can be hit on the head with a hammer, and reply "OH RANDOM FLUCTUATIONS IN THE SPACETIME CONTINUUM !".
    However, it does not bother me in the least, as the corrosive interactions merely strip away the veneer of fantasy we all tend to accumulate.
    Now THAT'S entertainment!
    Too many rules, and it gets as dull as a cardboard knife.
     
     
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from Foreigner in What concept/concepts is behind the term "inspired"?   
    I agree (somewhat).  
    I have no interest whatsoever in attacking people I will never meet, and soon, like all of us ... toooooo soon we will all be dead, and the words we type will evaporate forever.
    However, when I get hit on the shoulder and a grenade falls into my lap (figuratively speaking), I pick it up and toss it back where it came from.  Most of the time the "sender" forgot to pull the pin, but I consider the evil  intent, so I pull the pin, and send it back.  The amount of lies told about me, and things I have been accused of need to be addressed, AND ANY LIAR AND SLANDERER THOROUGHLY EXPOSED ... which I have done.
    Common, ordinary self defense.
    It's an exceptional person who can be hit on the head with a hammer, and reply "OH RANDOM FLUCTUATIONS IN THE SPACETIME CONTINUUM !".
    However, it does not bother me in the least, as the corrosive interactions merely strip away the veneer of fantasy we all tend to accumulate.
    Now THAT'S entertainment!
    Too many rules, and it gets as dull as a cardboard knife.
     
     
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from JOHN BUTLER in What concept/concepts is behind the term "inspired"?   
    I challenged you several times before to provide just ONE scripture that I had misinterpreted .... and you choked, and were unable to do so.
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from JOHN BUTLER in What concept/concepts is behind the term "inspired"?   
    Genetics works EXACTLY the same way for all living things.  The wider and deeper the gene pool, the better the quality of ALL DNA based life forms.
    What CTR said is certainly politically incorrect by today's Snowflake Standards,  but I, after carefully reading these words, would have to totally agree with them, as being incontrovertibly true.
    My first wife and her sister and a brother were born with Cystic Fibrosis, a truly awful death guaranteed, where every day, you die a little bit at a time, until you can no longer breathe, and after years of painful torment, are released , usually with a heart attack from the struggle, before age 30.
    I have my own set of problems, but she died in 1982. ( ...LOoooong story ...).
    We decided to NOT have children.    Too high of a risk to future generations.
    Genetically, with my "problems". I was of inferior genetic stock, and she was of inferior genetic stock,    Like soup stock, you get out of it what you out into it, and neither one of us wanted those genes continued.
    I am ONLY talking about genetics ... not intrinsic value, here.
    By the way ... this disease, Cystic Fibrosis is EXCLUSIVE to marshmallow white Caucasians.
    So I thought about this a great deal, and learned basic genetics, as all I knew was from reading Robert A. Heinlein books, such as "Methuselah's Children", and "Time Enough for Love" .... and went searching for a woman that had a little bit of EVERYTHING in her genetic makeup.
    I found one in Peru ..... Caucasian, Spanish, Peruvian Indian, Negro, etc.
    It worked EXACTLY as I anticipated, and my three children are POWERHOUSES, any way you want to measure it. Also as an added plus!, they have a "built in", year around permanent tan, that I have tried to get, but with fading results.
    I suspect they are embarrassed to be seen with me, as I cannot compete.
    Genetics works EXACTLY the same way for horses, mosquitoes, vegetables, fruits, dogs and cats .... AND HUMANS.
    It is ARROGANCE to think that past genetic "encounters" do not affect peoples, nations, and races in a progressive manner with multiplying effects.
    WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
    IT MEANS OVER TIME, IT'S CUMULATIVE
    ....sigh ..... if only the stupid would JUST be smart enough to not breed.
    Jehovah gave a LOT of attention and instruction to the Jews ...  even ordered them to go far afield to Assemblies of HIS people (not any others),, where presumably young men and women would meet others from a widely diverse gene pool.
    If you have the opportunity to swim in the gene pool .... you get better results if you do not swim in the shallow end ... or more to the point ... your PARENTS did not.
     
     
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from Anna in What concept/concepts is behind the term "inspired"?   
    Certainly there is free will ... all you can manage in whatever its is that is your hearts desire .... for good .... for evil ... or for misadventure.
    I used to jump out of perfectly good aircraft, KNOWING in less that two minutes I could be dead .... but I did it anyway.
    EVERYONE has freedom of will .... if they can manage it.
    NOBODY has freedom of consequences, unless it is pure, dumb luck.
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from JW Insider in Helicopter crash landed on "my" building   
    About five or so years before the Twin Towers went down ... I was offered a job there, and turned it down, as I viewed it as a fire hazard that could not be escaped from without a fast opening parachute, and a 12 gauge shotgun with solid lead slugs, to shoot out a window ( It takes about 400 feet to get line stretch on the suspension lines of a parachute ...). and even then, survival would have been problematic.
    I miss the money ... but not being dead.
     
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. reacted to JOHN BUTLER in What concept/concepts is behind the term "inspired"?   
    He is from "everlasting to everlasting" which can only happen in a universe that has no beginning, and where time happens all at once.
    Well I presume God created time as we know it. It is only 'as we know it' because 'man' has divided it and subdivided it, but before man started measuring it, it was happening. It's quite strange to think that before time, before Earth etc, there was God, the Word, the Angels living in another dimension. 
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from JOHN BUTLER in What concept/concepts is behind the term "inspired"?   
    I also have a great love for Humanity ... but often its PEOPLE I CAN'T STAND !
    I have gotten over it ... but for many years well after I became one of Jehovah's Witnesses ... everytime I heard or read the word "Japanese", I thought "Atomic Bombs!"
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from JOHN BUTLER in What concept/concepts is behind the term "inspired"?   
    Certainly there is free will ... all you can manage in whatever its is that is your hearts desire .... for good .... for evil ... or for misadventure.
    I used to jump out of perfectly good aircraft, KNOWING in less that two minutes I could be dead .... but I did it anyway.
    EVERYONE has freedom of will .... if they can manage it.
    NOBODY has freedom of consequences, unless it is pure, dumb luck.
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from JOHN BUTLER in What concept/concepts is behind the term "inspired"?   
    I am just doing this from memory, but if memory serves ... Satan was cast down to the VICINITY of the Earth.
    Jehovah does not live in this Universe, current best guess being about 30 billion light years in diameter, and expanding.
    Simply put ... Jehovah lives in a non-"arrow of time" Universe on the "other side" of the Big Bang.
    He is from "everlasting to everlasting" which can only happen in a universe that has no beginning, and where time happens all at once.
    That means that "Earth" is to be thought of as "dirt", or physical things, as found on a Periodic Table, not the planet.
    EVERYTHING you see in the night sky, and everything that can be seen, is "Earth", where we do or someday MIGHT live.
    Jehovah lives in "Heaven", which has a completely different set of physics.
    Time operates completely different on the other side of the "Big Bang".  OTHERWISE ... Jehovah had a beginning.
    A good thought experiment is this:  If mankind had bases on Jupiter's moons, or had mining operations in the Asteroid Belt ... would they be out of Satan's sphere of influence?
    Obviously not ... and mankind has already been to the Moon, many times, and we have about 9 robots running around on Mars.
    Notice I base these arguments on reason and logic, and solid reality .... in order not to get into a "dueling banjos/dueling scriptures" scenario where a rebuttal would tour the Multiverses, but not address what is actually being said, here by me.
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from Srecko Sostar in What concept/concepts is behind the term "inspired"?   
    Certainly there is free will ... all you can manage in whatever its is that is your hearts desire .... for good .... for evil ... or for misadventure.
    I used to jump out of perfectly good aircraft, KNOWING in less that two minutes I could be dead .... but I did it anyway.
    EVERYONE has freedom of will .... if they can manage it.
    NOBODY has freedom of consequences, unless it is pure, dumb luck.
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from Srecko Sostar in What concept/concepts is behind the term "inspired"?   
    I am just doing this from memory, but if memory serves ... Satan was cast down to the VICINITY of the Earth.
    Jehovah does not live in this Universe, current best guess being about 30 billion light years in diameter, and expanding.
    Simply put ... Jehovah lives in a non-"arrow of time" Universe on the "other side" of the Big Bang.
    He is from "everlasting to everlasting" which can only happen in a universe that has no beginning, and where time happens all at once.
    That means that "Earth" is to be thought of as "dirt", or physical things, as found on a Periodic Table, not the planet.
    EVERYTHING you see in the night sky, and everything that can be seen, is "Earth", where we do or someday MIGHT live.
    Jehovah lives in "Heaven", which has a completely different set of physics.
    Time operates completely different on the other side of the "Big Bang".  OTHERWISE ... Jehovah had a beginning.
    A good thought experiment is this:  If mankind had bases on Jupiter's moons, or had mining operations in the Asteroid Belt ... would they be out of Satan's sphere of influence?
    Obviously not ... and mankind has already been to the Moon, many times, and we have about 9 robots running around on Mars.
    Notice I base these arguments on reason and logic, and solid reality .... in order not to get into a "dueling banjos/dueling scriptures" scenario where a rebuttal would tour the Multiverses, but not address what is actually being said, here by me.
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    James Thomas Rook Jr. got a reaction from JOHN BUTLER in The Incredible Desert Find: the Sinaiticus Sheepngoats, Destined to Update the Bible Canon   
    If "loose conduct" is a fuzzy, nebulous "what the hell does THAT mean?" phrase ... the term "brazen conduct"" although it MAY be more accurate ( and I am NOT conceding that ...) is an even MORE fuzzy, nebulous "what the hell does THAT mean?" phrase
    It can even be bent into a pretzels shape to persecute  any behavior that someone else does not like .... BUT EVEN MORE DANGEROUS ...can be bent into a pretzel to persecute what someone else THINKS, and discusses.
    If anyone at Bethel is monitoring these discussions ... and I am reasonably sure someone is ... please consider this a request for solid, unambiguous clarification in the Watchtower, as to whether this applies to intellectual discussion and beliefs ... and DEFINE how this word is GOING TO BE USED IN OUR GOVERNANCE.
    .... besides .. you have been out of new topics for a VERY long time ...
    I remember an old movie, set in medieval times, with Omar Sharif as the main character ... and someone asked his character if there really was such a thing as witches?
    His reply was (paraphrased ...) "I hope so, because we burn 16,000 a year to death, here in Germany."
     
     
     
     
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